ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,615, issued on Dec. 23.

"System and method for parallelized volumetric microscope imaging" was invented by Gregor Horstmeyer (Durham, N.C.), Mark Harfouche (Durham, N.C.) and Paul Reamey (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be used for imaging volumetric samples using a camera array to capture images under different illumination patterns at different axial planes of focus, and at optionally varying lateral fields of view. The sequence of images taken under the different illumination patterns and optional varying lateral fields of view can be processed to generate an image representation of the sample at a focus p...